NoFlo coverage in August 2013

02 September 2013
in Berlin, Germany

2 minute read

August was a big month for NoFlo. We launched the Kickstarter campaign, which went from 0 to 90% inside the month. The Kickstarter has brought quite a lot of attention to Flow-Based Programming, including lots of interesting new NoFlo contributions. There has also been quite a lot of media coverage, and I thought to collect these into one place. To get a more real-time view to things as they’re posted, make sure to follow NoFlo on Twitter, Google+, or Facebook.

I’ve probably missed some stories. If you know a NoFlo story that isn’t listed here, please add it to the comments of this post.

Even with this amount of coverage, the job is of course far from done. We have 12 days to get over the 100% limit on Kickstarter to be able to move forward with the UI, and we’ll need help on that from all of you. So please support the Kickstarter campaign and spread the word about it!

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This has been a big week for NoFlo, the flow-based programming environment for JavaScript. Yesterday we released NoFlo 0.4, which added support for running flow-based programs in web browsers. And today we launched our NoFlo Development Environment effort on Kickstarter. Before continuing, make sure to watch the video!

Flowhub — the product made possible by our successful NoFlo Kickstarter — has now its own company dedicated to supporting and improving the visual programming environment.

Flow-Based Programming

Flow-Based Programming (FBP) is a software development paradigm where applications are built by "wiring together" various reusable components inside a graph.

Since running into the concept in 2011, I've built the NoFlo environment, which brings Flow-Based Programming to the universal runtime of JavaScript, allowing flows to be run on both Node.js and the browser.